This study examines the propensity to vote among women, in Lebanon, Morocco and Yemen, after the Arab spring. It questions whether or not the impositions on women’s personal space reduces their political participation.The article relies on different studies and statistics, about women´...
The barriers to women’s political participation in the Middle East have long preoccupied scholars and analysts. This report is a collection of articles of an interdisciplinary group of scholars who were invited to attend a workshop on important issues related to women’s public politic...
This report is a result from a work with Syrian grassroots women’s organisations to collect data, develop drafting skills, improve gender analysis and produce a document that highlights the crimes committed against Syrian women and the disproportionate impact of the armed conflict on them. ...
This report takes a country-by-country look at the role played by women in the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. It underlines the obstacles that prevent them from playing their full part in the political and public life of their countries. It emphasises the importance ...
This article gives an overview on the status of women in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, following the uprisings of 2011. It discusses the implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) and the extent of progress towards its goals. The article focuses on ...
Although women made a great contribution to the Arab Spring of 2011, they are still underrepresented politically in the Arab transition countries.This article discusses gender relations in the Arab world, it analysis the north-south partnerships and the inclusion of the gender dim...
This study is based on a research conducted in five Arab countries (Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Yemen and the occupied Palestinian territory) in 2013. It focuses on how emerging young female leaders – ordinary educated women with no specific feminist consciousness or previous political in...
This article explores the complex, and difficult space in which stories of women in “the Arab Spring” were wielded as parts of political narratives of gender, race, class, religion, democracy, and Westernization in Western media as the Arab Spring unfolded. It examines those stories b...
This report forms part of a project to strengthen women’s public voice in Egypt, Libya, and Yemen. It is based on consultations with over 400 women and men from these countries.The report examines the new opportunities for women´s activism, as well as the increased risk and backlash a...
This article casts light on the status of Arab women in the MENA region after the uprisings of 2011. It discusses about the low political representation of women in the transition process, the increasing violence against women, the effect of regional chaos, the rise of extremism towards women and...
This platform is part of the Axis 1 "Strengthening the capacities of equality actors" of the Priority Solidarity Fund "Women for the future in the Mediterranean" funded by the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs and led by the European Institute of the Mediterranean, in the framework of the project “Developing Women's Empowerment” labelled by the Union for the Mediterranean.
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